A grandfather riddled by guilt, a son-in-law risking everything fighting for justice and two grandsons locked in bitter rivalry.

Carmarthen, Wales, 1843—

Will Morgan, a sharp-witted but cautious carpenter’s apprentice, seethes with resentment. His older brother Tom will inherit the family farm—and now Tom has captured the heart of Ellen, Will’s closest friend.

Ellen, the serious and determined daughter of a reckless mother, has little time for romance. Struggling to raise her younger siblings and hold her fractured household together, she finds unexpected comfort in Tom’s quiet idealism and gentle charm. But their growing attachment draws fierce opposition from both Ellen’s volatile mother and Tom’s irascible grandfather, a haunted Waterloo veteran with secrets of his own.

As the countryside erupts in rebellion—Rebecca Rioters in women's dress tearing down the hated toll gates—the Morgans are drawn into a turbulent struggle of secrets, rivalries, and resistance.

For families like Ellen’s, the threat of the workhouse is ever-present. In a world where the poor are silenced and protest is punished with the noose or the ship to Australia, love and justice alike may cost everything.

The first instalment of the sweeping Carmarthen Chronicles, a gripping saga of rebellion, love and redemption, set against the backdrop of a nation on the brink of transformation.

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